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A history of the LAGB: The first fifty years1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2009

RICHARD HUDSON
RICHARD HUDSON*
Affiliation:
University College London
*
Author's address: Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 6BT, UKdick@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

Since its foundation in 1959, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain has established itself as one of the three associations for UK linguistics, alongside the much older Philological Society and its own child, the British Association for Applied Linguistics, though the relations among the associations are not always clear and can be somewhat problematic. The LAGB's main characteristic has always been its annual or twice-yearly conferences with a focus on language structure, but it also has its own journal and has taken a lead in promoting linguistics to funding and educational authorities. The paper outlines these events and how the LAGB's internal organisation has evolved to deal with them, and ends with three choices that face the association in its second half-century.

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Research Article
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 1 - 30
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Copyright © 2009 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

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Many people have helped to produce this article by providing information or documentation, or by helping to track down the archives, and I should like to thank them all: Sylvia Adamson, David Adger, Doug Arnold, Bob Borsley, Keith Brown, Grev Corbett, Aidan Coveney, David Crystal, Anne Cutler, Nigel Fabb, Caroline Heycock, Patrick Honeybone, Jim Hurford, Ewa Jaworska, Andrew Linn, John Lyons, Fiona Marshall, John Mountford, Frank Palmer, Ian Roberts, Paul Rowlett, Neil Smith, Maggie Tallerman, Peter Trudgill, Nigel Vincent, David Willis, Wim van der Wurff.

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